Truss



v L. 0. GANDION.

TRUSS.

APPLICATION FILED Aue.4, 1920.

1,897,863. P2tentedN0v.22, 1921.

Jim 2917601 LOUIS D. GAN DION UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

LOUIS D. GANDION, OF SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA.

TRUSS.

Application filed August 4, 1920.

To all whom it may t ance 1'11,

Be it known that I, LOUIS D. Gaxorox, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city and county of San Francisco, State of California, have made a new and useful inventionto wit, Improvements 1n Trusses; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, concise, and exact description of the same.

This invention relates particularly to an attaching buckle for truss belts and the manner of securing the same to the pad body.

An obj ectof this invention is to provide a new and novel means of fastening the belt buckle in the truss body so that the body portion of the pad will not be mutilated or weakened in any way to minimize the usefulness of the truss. Other objects and advantages will appear as this description progresses.

In this specification and the annexed drawings, the invention is illustrated in the form considered to be the best, but it is to be understood that the invention is not limited to such form, because it may be embodied in other forms, and it is also to be understood that in and by the claims following the description it is desired to cover the invention in whatsoever form it may be embodied.

In the accompanying one-sheet of drawings,

Figure 1 represents truss pad construct-- ed in accordance with my invention, having my new engaging buckle secured therein.

Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same.

Fig. 3 represents a perspective view of my engaging buckle.

Fig. 4: is an enlarged sectional detail through the truss body and buckle in assembled position.

In detail the construction illustrated in the drawings includes a wooden block member l substantially hemispherical in shape and provided with a pad 2, formed of rubber or other flexible, resilient composition, covering the face thereof and having a metallic cap member 3 engaging the flat surface of said block. The cap 3 is formed from a circular blank of sheet metal or other suitable material and has the edge thereof crimped over to form an annular flange 5, substantially at right angles to the plane of the main body of the cap. The diameter of the flange 5 on the cap is approximately equal Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 22, 1921.

Serial No. 401,227.

to the outer diameter of the pad block 1 so that the same will frictionally engage therewith in assembled position as indicated at 7.

The surface of the cap member 3 is cut away adjacent the periphery thereof to provide a T-shaped aperture 8, the head portion 9 of which is spaced away from the periphcry of the cap and has the neck portion 10 that extends to the said periphery and partly around the annular flange 5, as at 10, see Fig. 4. The metal cross section of the planal cap surface 8 is entirely removed from the opening 8 at 10 adjacent the annular flange, to permit the buckle member 11 having the elongated angular segmental head 12, to parallel and bear against the inner periphery of the said flange.

The head 12 is joined to the main body portion of the buckle 11 by a reduced neck 13, substantially of the same width as the opening 10 in the aperture 8. Thus when the buckle engaging member is inserted into the T-shaped opening in the cap end, the head 12 will position itself against the side flange 5, and the belt tension exerted when the truss is secured to the body of a user will be exerted along the full length of the head 12 against the side wall avoiding the possibility of the neck portion 12 wearing as at 10. Assuming that the truss pad is in position and the belt member 14: passed around the waist of a user, the flange 7 on the pad block will be positioned substantially at right angles to the body of the user and the tendency of the buckle member to separate from the pad body will be exerted a 'ainst the side wall with which it rests in parallel relationship, in contradistinction to the ordinary type of connection, wherein, the elbow 12' of the buckle bears against a narrow cross sectional strip of metal of which the cap end is formed as at 10' and inevitably results after long usage in wearing or tearing away the supporting metal section, leaving a ragged edge of metal that is a source of annoyance to the clothes and body of the user. With this new type of connection, this and other objectionable features have been eliminated.

Having thus described this invention, what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. In a truss, the combination with a pad carrying block having a belt secured thereto of means for detachably connecting the other extremity of the belt with the block,

comprising, a cut-away portion therein leavlng an exposed slde Wall; and an engaging member adapted to parallel and frictionally contact with said side wall.

2. In a truss the combination with a pad carrying frame having a portion of the body thereof cut away to leave a side wall substantially at right angles to the body of a wearer and an engaging member adapted to parallel and frictionally contact with said side wall.

3. A truss consisting ot a pad and a carrymg frame afiixed thereon, said carrylng frame comprising an annular metal collar adapted to be positioned substantially at right angles to the body of a wearer and a belt secured to said carrying frame having an engaging member thereon consisting of an elongated body portion adapted to parallel and frictionally contact with said collar.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand at San Francisco, California, this 30th day of June 1920.

tours D. GANDION. In presence of- LINCOLN V. JoHNsoN. 

